I've been interested in getting a Roku box to view Neflix movies. We currently have the $9 - oops $10 - one disk plan, and I looked up about 50 movies I want to look at and NONE of them are available for streaming. Some have said that only 10% of Netflix's library is available for streaming. That's stuff they have now, not 28+ days from now.
How many other folks will find the streaming-only plan to be not very useful? How will the affect their profits?
The subject line says it all. I live in a city with a fantastic library system with a sufficiently good web site that I can reserve books and have them shipped to a branch which is about two blocks from my house. They will order via inter library loan and have purchased books on my recommendation. Ya, it takes a little longer than an instant download from the 'net, but I have a sufficient queue that I'm never out of reading material.
I once lived in a SE Michigan city that had stop signs on wheels and would move them to different places along a street, normally where there was no intersection. They were only a couple of feet off the ground and they would place them behind a parked car. A very low tech revenue generator.
I listened to the whole audio-video presentation as I had been a subscriber to the Rocky from the time I moved to Colorado in 1982 until delivery was stopped outside the Denver area and switched to the Denver Post. Temple gives 10 reasons why the Rocky failed. Perhaps the most important lesson to be learned is that one must pay attention to what your clientele wants. Charging a subscription fee for web site to reprint what can be found anywhere for free is not a very good business model and will be very difficult to attract advertisers for supplemental revenue. Value must be added. I'm not sure what that "value" may be, but lessons can be learned from successful web sites, particularly those without a fee. Find out how they are monetized, likely through advertising because the sites attract a large, interested customer base that is willing to respond to the ads. All this requires a great deal of creativity and not just the required technical and artistic skill at web site design - another of Temple's points. You can name a large number of successful web sites that have made its creators and employees rich because they had these talents.
I read this AM in Google's news site Google Reader, The Denver Business Journal reports:
"The Rocky Mountain Independent, the second attempt by former Rocky Mountain News staffers to start an online news publication, announced Thursday that it will stop producing new content on Monday.
In a letter sent to "members" who had purchased an online subscription that allowed them access to certain features, owners of the website said they could not continue producing their product with their current revenues."
Obviously not enough folks were willing to pay for what is probably free on the web elsewhere.
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Maybe off topic: Netflix as streaming-only
I've been interested in getting a Roku box to view Neflix movies. We currently have the $9 - oops $10 - one disk plan, and I looked up about 50 movies I want to look at and NONE of them are available for streaming. Some have said that only 10% of Netflix's library is available for streaming. That's stuff they have now, not 28+ days from now.
How many other folks will find the streaming-only plan to be not very useful? How will the affect their profits?
I don't buy book - I use the library
The subject line says it all. I live in a city with a fantastic library system with a sufficiently good web site that I can reserve books and have them shipped to a branch which is about two blocks from my house. They will order via inter library loan and have purchased books on my recommendation. Ya, it takes a little longer than an instant download from the 'net, but I have a sufficient queue that I'm never out of reading material.
Here's how one city uses low tech
I once lived in a SE Michigan city that had stop signs on wheels and would move them to different places along a street, normally where there was no intersection. They were only a couple of feet off the ground and they would place them behind a parked car. A very low tech revenue generator.
Re: Re: In addition regarding a paid news subscription model
What do they need to learn?
I listened to the whole audio-video presentation as I had been a subscriber to the Rocky from the time I moved to Colorado in 1982 until delivery was stopped outside the Denver area and switched to the Denver Post. Temple gives 10 reasons why the Rocky failed. Perhaps the most important lesson to be learned is that one must pay attention to what your clientele wants. Charging a subscription fee for web site to reprint what can be found anywhere for free is not a very good business model and will be very difficult to attract advertisers for supplemental revenue. Value must be added. I'm not sure what that "value" may be, but lessons can be learned from successful web sites, particularly those without a fee. Find out how they are monetized, likely through advertising because the sites attract a large, interested customer base that is willing to respond to the ads. All this requires a great deal of creativity and not just the required technical and artistic skill at web site design - another of Temple's points. You can name a large number of successful web sites that have made its creators and employees rich because they had these talents.
In addition regarding a paid news subscription model
I read this AM in Google's news site Google Reader, The Denver Business Journal reports:
"The Rocky Mountain Independent, the second attempt by former Rocky Mountain News staffers to start an online news publication, announced Thursday that it will stop producing new content on Monday.
In a letter sent to "members" who had purchased an online subscription that allowed them access to certain features, owners of the website said they could not continue producing their product with their current revenues."
Obviously not enough folks were willing to pay for what is probably free on the web elsewhere.
When will they learn!